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I bought an open-box laptop. Should I reset Windows?
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I'd prefer a surely clean system because I may use this netbook for banking and cryptocurrency operations.
The only way to truly do this is to reflash the BIOS and reinstall the OS....
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I bought an open-box laptop. Should I reset Windows?
The fact that you entered the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) means that all
traces were removed of the previous user (if there was one).
It does not mean that such a user did not install some software
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Why do I have two desktop.ini files on my windows 8 desktop?
Destop.ini twice: Possible
Why you see two desktop.ini in this case is particular and already explained, the two files are in different folders which are merged by Windows Explorer. I you look at the ...
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